Boardman v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made June 4,1879, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiffs, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. This action was brought by George S. Boardman, plaintiffs’ testator, in August, 1875, to compel defendant to pay dividends upon certain shares of preferred stock held by him and to restrain it from paying dividends upon certain portions of its common stock until the claim of plaintiff was paid and satisfied. The original plaintiff having died after…